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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (433315)	7/25/2003 1:20:27 PM
From: Red Heeler	Respond to of 769670

Thanks for catching me up. That's a fine summary. Here's what happened to me as I attempted to exercise my full mental capacity, male, white, college degreed, land-owning, vote in Tarrant County, Texas in 2000: I was handed my darken-the-dot-with-a-number-two-pencil-don't-get-out-of-the-circle-darken-the-circle-completely ballot. I told the pollworker that I wished to place a write-in vote for President and asked how to proceed. Pollworker said, "Well, there are only three people that you can write in for President. Jim Wright is one of them and I can't remember who the other two are." I said, "Well, can you ask someone who the other two people are?" Pollworker asks his two colleagues: "We don't know who the other two people are." "What if I just write someone in?" "If the person you write in is not one of the three people then your entire ballot is void." "Well, then can you call someone? I'd like to vote for President and I want my ballot to count in the local elections." Besides, now my curiosity is really up. Who are those other two people, Mickey Mouse and Mom's Mabely? "Well, I suppose I could call someone at the County Headquarters but I don't really know who to call." "Could you try?" Pollster makes call and is put on hold. Five minutes later Pollster is still on hold and my wife's finished voting. Wife approaches and says, "What are you doing? Why haven't you voted?" "I don't know who the candidates are." "What!?" "There's two guys who aren't on the ballot for President who I might like to vote for but I can't find out who they are." "We were supposed to meet Steve and Kay five minutes ago." "I don't get to do this again for four years." "Thank God." I tired (read my wife tired) of waiting to find out who the two mystery Presidential candidates were and Pollworker didn't seem to be making any headway so I voted with what I had. It worked out okay, though, because Steve and Kay were running late themselves. CC